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Many may remember E.G. Marshall (later Tammy Grimes) introducing this relatively modern CBS radio show . The brainchild of Himan Brown (who guided Inner Sanctum), CBS in allowed Mr. Brown to relive the days of thrilling radio for an hour a full seven nights a week! The late E.G. Marshall hosted the program every year but the final one, when actress Tammy Grimes took over.

The mixed cast of television and radio stars offer a range of stories from the pens of the great writers, as well as offering new tales of mystery and imagination. Rarely performed tales by Mark Twain and O. Henry and classic radio tales by Edgar Allen Poe were featured.

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Please enjoy these 1398 old time radio episodes:

Air Date	Title	Synopsis
08.24.1982	funeral without a corpse	+A district attorney aspiring to be a U.S. Senator is blackmailed by a man who threatens to reveal a...
07.19.1976	future eye	+ Program #927. "Future Eye". Sponsored by: Preparation H, Buick, Time. The program was rebroadcast...
05.04.1981	garden of the moon	+A cosmetics firm executive purchases some make-up from a new health store that specializes in food ...
01.21.1982	gate 27	+A former detective becomes a drunken street bum after his wife leaves him. He drinks heavily and hi...
02.25.1976	general laughter	+Program #782. "General Laughter". Sponsored by: Budweiser. The program was rebroadcast on July 16,...
07.29.1974	ghost at high noon	+Program #206. "Ghost At High Noon". Sponsored by: Budweiser, 7-Up, Buick, Contac. The program was ...
10.29.1975	ghost powder	+ Program #663. "Ghost Powder". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on March 28, 1976....
01.17.1975	ghost talk	+Program #378. "Ghost Talk". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Contac. The program was rebroadcast on March ...
05.31.1976	ghost town	+ Program #878. "Ghost Town". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Septem...
05.16.1978	girl talk	+Two women who were friends in school meet after not seeing each other for several years. One is a h...
12.23.1974	give the devil his due	+Program #353. "Give The Devil His Due". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was re...
11.09.1981	golden time	+A gregarious plumber makes a house call and finds himself in a real life adventure when he is taken...
02.19.1976	goodbye benjamin flack	+ Program #776. "Good-Bye, Benjamin Flack". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Allstate Insurance, ...
07.16.1975	goodbye karl erich	+Program #558. "Goodbye, Karl Erich". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcas...
09.06.1976	graven image	+Program #976. "Graven Image". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Popular Library Books. The program w...
07.11.1978	guardian angel	+Program #1648. "Guardian Angel". Sponsored by: Contac, Buick, Country Time. The program was rebroa...
05.03.1982	guilty as charged	+A hardware salesman is charged with a series of robberies and kidnappings he did not commit. The su...
05.27.1977	guilty secret	+ Program #1238. "Guilty Secret". Sponsored by: Greyhound Package Express, Contac, Vantage Press, T...
07.07.1975	guilty	+ Program #549. "Guilty". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on November 9, 1975. + K...
11.03.1980	guilty	+A washed-up playwrite tries to convince a detective and his relatives that he killed his uncle to g...
02.27.1976	half a life	+ Program #784. "Half A Life". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Allstate Insurance. The pr...
09.08.1980	hand in glove	+A surgeon receives a hand transplant from a serial killer who murdered five pretty young blond nurs...
01.21.1977	happy death day	+ Program #1112. "Happy Death Day". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Contac. The program was rebr...
12.14.1981	harrys taxi and the t machine	+A down on his luck scientist creates a transmigration machine and begins to experiment with living ...
08.21.1974	having a horrible time	+Program #229. "Having A Horrible Time". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcas...

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There is a really good Christmas episode of The Saint.

Keith

Great series - I remember listening to this show as a teenager -- scared the pants off me back then.

Ralph

I loved listening to CBS mystery theater when I was a kid!

Darrell

I love this series.

Bruce

Have most of them on my iPod great series

Brett

Listened to CBS radio mystery theatre for the first time last night on youtube. Quite enjoyable. I imagine the show I listened to, The Time Box, must have been a departure from the norm given the horror ambiance of the presentation. I was expecting everyone to die in the end, but instead it turned out a romance.

Daniel

Spent 8 years listening to CBSRMT when it was originally on in the 70s. My favorite episode is from the second month February 1974...A Choice of Witnesses. Other favorites include the Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe week long series that they did

Eric

Too many episodes should have been called The CBS Supernatural Theater. Never cared for those. Just give me mystery and detective shows, thanks.

Dan

I love CBS Radio Mystery Theater. There's some ghoulish ones and romantic ones, supernaturally-tainted ones. I like the one where the guy starts off being killed in battle then wakes up in his bedroom as a kid with his father waking him up for school. No giveaways - that's just how it begins. Keep exploring the episodes ( so many!) - you'll find something entertaining without a doubt!

Laura

Haha they did that one did they? That one was done both in dimention X and X minus 1 I think.

Dan

CBS Radio mystery is how I got started with OTR. I first heard it about 40 years ago when I was a teenager back in the 70s. Then when I was an adult living in my own apartment with no TV in the mid 80s, I was able to find what I thought was the same as what I had heard in the 70s. What I ended up listening to was OTR being put on ever night at 9 pm and 2 am on KNX radio in Los Angeles. For probably 10 years or more, I had been trying to find the original episode (I didn't knot it was CBS radio) I had first heard back in the 70s. I thought it was Suspense or Lights Out. Somehow I found out that it was CBS Radio from the 70s and not OTR from the 40s. I was finally able to find the original episode called Age Cannot Wither Her. This got me started wtih OTR and Mildred Pierce got me started with film noir. I love old movies, old radio and old TV shows.

Del

Many OTR (Old Time Radio) collectors call this NTR (New Time Radio) program the Son of Inner Sanctum. It was an ambitious attempt to bring back drama to modern radio listeners. It was broadcast on CBS from January 6, 1974 and ran seven days a week until December 31, 1982. We had this listed before, and because so many folk asked, here it is again.

CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER

The theme music (or at least the one I remember) was composed by Nathan Van Cleave for The Twilight Zone episode "Two," which starred Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson. The Twilight Zone was owned and broadcast by CBS.

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